Length Overall: 129’
Beam: 23’
Draft: 10’
Sail Area: 6,300 sq. ft.
Rig: Gaff topsail schooner
Built: 1971 South Bristol, Maine
Home Port: Oxnard, California

Built in 1971, the 129’ Bill of Rights is a wooden, gaff-rigged topsail schooner designed by McCurdy, Rhodes & Bates. She is patterned after Wanderer, a schooner built in 1856 as a racing yacht. She was acquired by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute in 1997 after serving as a charter vessel on the East Coast. Bill of Right’s current owner, Stephen Taylor, is also her Captain and the founder of the American Tall Ships institute. She provides private and public party tours of the harbor and a variety of “immersion type” student programs during the week and offers day sails to the public on the weekends to the Channel Islands.